The Market Report

Ming's Supermarket  /  New York Marts Open: 1990-2023 Owner:  Ming Lee Previous Tenants:  unknown Later Tenants:  Go Fresh 365 Cooperative:  none Location:  1102 Washington St, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 27, 2019 Welcome to Chinatown! Boston's Chinatown is a busy, vibrant neighborhood, and it's just south of downtown Boston. The first Chinese supermarket we'll see in this neighborhood is Ming's Supermarket, also branded New York Marts (at the time of my visit, the Ming's Supermarket sign was a small poster literally taped to the front wall). I don't completely know why the signage was like that -- Ming's still appears to be owned by New York Marts's parent company Go Fresh 365 -- but more recently, the New York Marts signage had been covered with Ming's signs as it's now listed on Google Maps as New Ming. At some point in 2023 or 2024, the store rebranded (apparently under the same ownership) as Go Fresh 365 . I'm not aware of any ...

New York Marts Open: 2013-2022 Owner:  Long Deng Previous Tenants:  Super 88 Market > Thuận Đạt Supermarket Cooperative:  none Location:  733 Hancock St, Quincy, MA Photographed:  August 4, 2019 and May 6, 2023 I mentioned about a week ago that there had been a couple of store closures in Quincy between my 2019 visit and my 2023 visit. One of those stores was this one, a roughly 15,000 square foot New York Marts that opened in 2013 and closed a little under ten years later in 2022. Prior to New York Marts, a small chain of Chinese supermarkets, the space was occupied by Super 88 , another Chinese supermarket chain from the Boston area, then an independent called Thuận Đạt Supermarket, a Vietnamese store. The store's large seafood and meat departments lined the left side of the building, with registers across the front wall and produce in the middle. Grocery aisles and frozen/refrigerated foods were behind the produce department. I don't know for sure wh...

H Mart Owner: Il Yeon Kwon Opened:  July 14, 2022 Previous Tenants:  Key Food (closed 2010) > New York Marts (2011-2018) > iFresh (2018-2020) Location:  142-41 Roosevelt Ave, Downtown Flushing, Queens, NY Photographed:  July 15, 2022 Welcome to downtown Flushing, a neighborhood in northern central Queens! Flushing is a dense urban neighborhood widely known for its large Asian population (roughly 70%, according to Wikipedia). Flushing has also, and partly for that reason, become a tourist spot -- let's just say I wasn't the only person taking pictures from the sidewalks. But downtown Flushing is anchored by the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue about a block and a half west of this store, and again according to Wikipedia that intersection is the third-busiest in the city -- behind only Times Square and Herald Square. I spent a day in Flushing, Corona, Jackson Heights, and Woodside not too long ago, visiting and photographing a whopping 66 stores ...